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Propertymark has responded to the formal consultation schemes being imposed by a string of local councils - but says such measures...

A Labour council in London is seeking much greater control over the creation of so-called ‘small HMOs’. Lambeth council wants anyone creating a...

NatWest Group has announced a new package of what it calls ”targeted lending and support” to help local councils provide more...

A survey of local council private rental licensing schemes says 19 selective and additional licensing schemes and consultations will be taking...

New research shows there are 36,210 long-term vacant homes across London - that’s around one in every 100 properties. The borough in...

A Labour-run London council is consulting on a new licensing scheme for private rented property.  If it goes ahead it will be...

A lettings agency claims foreign homeowners are sitting on £84.2 billion worth of property across England and Wales - but with...

A London borough has been identified as having 42 per cent rental inflation in the past year. Lambeth in the south of...

The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...

Rental portal Rentd says the pandemic-long decline in the London rental market is now “reversing at speed”. Rental values are climbing annually...

A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jack Reid Founding Director of Orlando Reid  In your experience,...

At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...

Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...

Lambeth council is consulting agents, landlords and others on its latest licensing proposals for Houses in Multiple Occupation. The new proposals would...

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...

New research by lettings management platform Howsy shows which major London commuter hubs make the most attractive potential for buy to...

A London Labour council wants to introduce rent controls to its borough. The South London Press reports that Lambeth councillors have voted through...

Average rents in London are £1,615, up 3.3 per cent on last year, according to HomeLet’s latest index. This is the first...

A buy to let expert says there should be stronger enforcement and streamlining of legislation in the private rental sector. In a...

New research by an online property lending company reveals that those towns which were strongest in voting ‘Leave’ in the EU...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £400,000 after converting a property into flats without permission. Gilbert Garrick let the...